Prog death metal masters Fallujah are paying tribute to extreme metal pioneers Meshuggah with their music video for ‘The Obsidian Architect’, a track from their latest album ‘Xenotaph’ out via Nuclear Blast!
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News Posts
Finnish death/doom mastodons Hooded Menace reawaken classic horror on new single ‘Pale Masquerade’ another track from their upcoming album ‘Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration’, set for release in October via Season of Mist!
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Danish electro death metal band Lightchapter released the fourth and final single ‘Restore My Faith in Sanity’ in anticipation of their second album ‘Where All Hope Begins’ being released on September 26!
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Danish extreme metal outfit Galge shared second single ‘Genklang’ with some captivating visuals, from their upcoming album ‘Dødelig’, set for release in the beginning of October!
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Funeral doom titans Evoken announce new album ‘Mendacium’ to be released in October via Profound Lore Records and share a first track with album opener ‘Matins’!
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Manchester’s savage sons WODE return with their fourth album ‘Uncrossing The Keys’, out in October with 20 Buck Spin, shared the single ‘Transmutation’ and opened preorders for the album!
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Dungeon doom/death/black trio Cultic brings warlocks and dragons by unleashing the video single ‘Nomad’, a track from their upcoming third album ‘Lore’, out in October via Eleventh Key Records!
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Ukranian blackened death metal force 1914 announced their new album ‘Viribus Unitis’ to be released in November via Napalm Records and shared a first taste with ‘1916 (The Südtirol Offensive)’!
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Finnish death metal outfit Plague Vessel sign with Memento Mori and are preparing to release their debut album with their new label in 2026!
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The legendary Finnish metal band Soulgrind is back after 15 years with new music under the form of their tenth album ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’, set for release with Inverse Records and a first single and video ‘Jylhä metsämies’!
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Photo Reports
Pictures of the 1st day of celebration of the dark, obscure and extreme at the 10th anniversary edition of Steelfest!
Spoil Engine’s last performance with Iris in De Kreun, Kortrijk.
Burning Witches and Nervosa made a stop at 7er Club, Mannheim, Germany on their current ‘Double The Metal Tour’. See the photos of their phenomenal gig right here!
Pictures of the stop in Munich of the “Double The Metal 2022” tour with Burning Witches and Nervosa and support from SystemHouse33!
Asgaard hosts 5 Belgian bands who are travelling around together under the title ‘Infected Weekends’
Death Metal night in Asgaard! 2 Belgian Bands on the program: Carrion and Crux Tenebris!
The pics of the very first Black Box event in Mikkeli with headliner Bloodred Hourglass, Wolfheart, Sara and Balance Breach!
Pics of a great line-up of underground and up-and-coming Finnish metal acts at Bar Loose with Crucify The Faith, Ninetyfive50 and Enragement!
Reject the sickness introduce their new album ‘While our world dissolves’ On their tour they make a stop in Asgaard Gentbrugge.
Pictures of a great night of Finnish melodeath with Mors Subita and I Revolt at On The Rocks in Helsinki!
Album Reviews
Ageless Summoning’s debut album “Corrupting the Entempled Plane” fits into the category of atmospheric death metal and comes highly recommended for fans of Morbid Angel and Demigod. Released via Dark Descent Records.
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From Albion’s shores hails ‘The Devil and his Wicked Ways’, the debut album from Roots of the Old Oak’, treating you to some undistilled death doom straight from the nineties. Out on September 15 via Hammerheart Records.
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The long-awaited comeback album “Make Them Beg For Death” from the U.S. brutal death metal/grindcore Dying Fetus brings the expected top-notch, high caliber quality we all expected. An absolute monster of an album, released on September 8 via Relapse Records!
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Besides the grisly cover album, “Blackened Cerebral Riffs”, the third album from Northern New Jersey brutal death metal project Dead And Dripping is one of the best releases from Transcending Obscurity Records and marks a great achievement for the sole member who shows an expected talent in his newest endeavor.
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Fifth album “Ontological Mysterium” from the US metal four-piece Horrendous is a sonic feast for fans of technical/progressive death metal. The album shines with its intricate guitar work with a superb level of technicality. Released a couple of weeks ago via Season of Mist.
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Dark Descent Records and Extremely Rotten Productions surprised the fans with one of the best split releases of the year. Offering three exclusive songs from Denmark’s death metal outfit Undergang and one monolithic 14-minute track from the U.S. death/doom metal act Spectral Voice.
The international death metal act KHNVM is a prime example of the underground scene which has been blossoming with well-established bands and their latest outing ‘Visions of A Plague-Ridden Sky’ shows great talent that bridges the style between modern and old school brutal death metal. Out on Bitter Loss Records and Neck Breaker Records.
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Static Abyss’ second full-length “Aborted from Reality” invokes such horror and treads into the style of morbid crusty death doom metal, Chris Reifert and Greg Wilkinson have successfully created a filthy and sordid amalgam of slow death doom metal. Out via Peaceville Records!
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Lunar Chamber is one of the most unique bands in the subgenre of progressive technical death metal. Their debut EP “Shambhallic Vibrations” is such a mind-boggling record full of sophisticated riffing and a bizarre ethereal atmosphere, released via 20 Buck Spin.
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The third album from the Oregon-Portland based-death metal quartet Torture Rack, “Primeval Onslaught”, includes many highlight tracks. No frills here, just fucking primitive and putrid old school death metal from start to finish, Torture Rack will leave you all satisfied. Released via 20 Buck Spin!
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